At some point you will be glad you have that cushion, whether it is to take advantage of an opportunity or avert a crisis. 

The Fed's intervention, through increased interest rates, is intended to curb this excessive growth and bring the market back to more realistic levels.It's important to understand that a correction is a natural part of economic cycles and does not necessarily signal a crisis.

One of the worst housing markets in the country, 27% of homes still severely underwater nearly a decade after the last financial crisis.

Our country has a housing crisis and it doesn't seem right to rent our properties to illegal immigrants when our citizens struggle to find a place to live.

I would not Buy property in Miami right now, especially with the Condo Crisis.

American’s Net Worth is UPTotal net worth for the bottom 50% of folks is UP big time, and has been since the Great Financial Crisis, but it took 13 years, until ~2019, to get back above 2006 levels.

We had 9/11 and a pandemic and a Great Financial Crisis but none of those even came remotely close to the Spanish Flu or the Great Depression.

There are hotels doing 400-600% more revenue today than they were doing at the bottom of the crisis.

Most residential remodeling in all of CA is done without permits, long before this "housing crisis".

But they (proportionately) got significantly better since the Global Financial Crisis, when their unemployment rate was above 20% and their young employment rate was way higher.$60 to $120 for a room isn't bad.